If Gabby Petito had brown skin, would it be the national story we are witnessing?

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71. And yet, 20 years ago, cable news managed to still do saturation coverage of missing white women

So the "thousands of people among a few hundred million knew who Gabby was" excuse for covering her case while ignoring missing and murdered Black and brown women fails.

It's really interesting that some folks here are going through this much trouble to deny the fact that media coverage is driven by the same racial biases that exist in the rest of the country.

This is another example of how many progressives are willing to admit that racism exists in America, but will consistently and vigorously deny that racial bias or racism are ever at play in the specific circumstance being discussed. It says if they fear that admitting bias is present in a particular instance somehow makes them complicit in it and, therefore racist themselves, which certainly isn't the case.